Gareth Emery – Live at The Warehouse Project

You gotta love these live extended sets because they really show what a DJ can do on the tables. On Boxing day of 2011, Gareth Emery played a 6 hour set at The Warehouse Project in Manchester, England, which is the city he currently works out of. This set is impressively long, however it seems like Gareth has been bitten by the popularity bug. While his performance is fun to listen to, there aren’t many too many new or unreleased tracks in here. I guess you have to spin all of the popular hits in a long set like this, but I wish he played with more originality like he used to towards the beginning of his career. However, this mix still has that signature Gareth Emery feel to it, and I do appreciate the selection of several techy tracks which balance with the electro nicely. There are plenty of tracks off his Garuda label, including work by Garuda artists Ben Gold, Craig Connelly, and Tritonal. There are also many mashups in here, with my favorite being the Super8 & Tab Helektra mashup of their own productions Elektra and Helsinki Scorchin. This recording is a great representation of Gareth’s work in 2011, but if you are still yearning for more from Mr. GTR, make sure you also check out episode 165 of his podcast for his 2011 year-mix.